March 20

Tunes: courtesy of Judith: Sugar- Maroon 5

Journal:

Today we will be doing an oral journal within the groups you are seated in. Hopefully your table is split on the question, but if everyone in your group agrees (or even if they don't), reach out to groups around you.  *Don't forget to turn in your journals to the box*

Topic: (you have options) 

1. It's harder to be one gender over the other. 

2. People make a conscious decision to be good everyday. 

3. If no one was capable of holding in or filtering their own thoughts, how would the world be different? 

4. Make your own. 

Agenda:

1. Talk about your masterpiece and probably make a blog post about it. 

2. Essay consultations. 

3. Dr.Preston will probably assign the Huxley essay to be due on Monday

Start a conversation...

To encourage masterpiece conversations Erica and I think that these conversations take offs can help... How it works is by choosing one of the take offs and conversing with the take off.

I am great at...
I am happiest when...
I am passionate about...
The thing that energizes me most is...
The type of people I work with the best are...
When I enter a room full of people, I usually feel...
I like to be with people when...
I get angry when...
I want people to know that I...
When I think about the future, I see myself...

who better to share fundraising advice...

...than our collaborators in England, who have raised nearly $8000 in the last month?  Thank you Laura & Jess!

who better to share college insights with the class of 2015...

..than the Class of 2012?  Thanks Will & Amanda!

march 19

JOURNAL TOPIC: (Today's tunes are a video.)



What is it about tests?  They can motivate us and help us prove our knowledge and skills, or they can fill us with anxiety and seem pointless or even insulting.  However we feel about tests per se, ultimately practitioners of every sort are rightly expected to be able to demonstrate what they've learned.   What sort of "test" do you need to pass to prove your worthiness in your Masterpiece field? How have others in the field proven themselves?

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Design your test/s

HW:
Lit Analysis #3 due March 31

Blogs and Projects

                It is no mystery that a lot of us do not take our education seriously. We know it and Dr. Preston knows it.  It is sad because our education gives us a lot of opportunity for us to succeed at what we want to succeed at.  But it is only there for who wants to take it.  I think all of us want each other to succeed but when we see someone else not try we find it easy to follow.  Today in class we agreed that we need to solve this problem so that we can finish high school with the idea that we actually accomplished something in this world.  This class gives us the opportunity to do this.  All we have to do is hold each other accountable and take it.

                So, we have agreed on a two-step program to accomplish this.

1)      April 1^st all blogs will be looked over and judged on QUALITY by other students.  It is okay if you are missing some things or if they are way past due date, just as long as it looks like QUALITY effort was put into it from NOW until April 1st.  Things relating to your masterpiece will count towards this QUALITY judgement.

2)      Co-operative group projects that build interdependence and accountability between each other…  Bridgit will have more on this.

there's a first time for everything

Notice anything unusual about the Spring Cleaning post?  Everyone who was in class yesterday is now a co-author of the course blog.  Thanks for the post, Anaya!